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ReviewCells2021

Development of Stem Cell-Derived Immune Cells for Off-the-Shelf Cancer Immunotherapies.

Yan-Ruide Li, Zachary Spencer Dunn, Yang Zhou, Derek Lee, Lili Yang

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed.

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  9. In vivo CAR engineering for immunotherapy.Nature reviews. Immunology · 2025
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  11. Managing allorejection in off-the-shelf CAR-engineered cell therapies.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yan-Ruide LiDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Zachary Spencer DunnMork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2500-6006
Yang ZhouDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Derek LeeDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.
Lili YangDepartment of Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA.

Funding

MULTIDISCIPLINARY TRAINING IN MICROBIAL PATHOGENESIST32AI007323 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Peter John Bradley · 1988 to 2026
$8.6M
California Institute for Regenerative Medicine DISC-13015California Institute for Regenerative Medicine DISCCOVID19-12020California Institute for Regenerative Medicine TRAN1-08533California Institute for Regenerative Medicine TRAN1-12250NIAID NIH HHS T32 AI007323
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Cell-based cancer immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of hematological malignancies. Specifically, autologous chimeric antigen receptor-engineered T (CAR-T) cell therapies have received approvals for treating leukemias, lymphomas, and multiple myeloma following unprecedented clinical response rates. A critical barrier to the widespread usage of current CAR-T cell products is their autologous nature, which renders these cellular products patient-selective, costly, and challenging to manufacture. Allogeneic cell products can be scalable and readily administrable but face critical concerns of graft-versus-host disease (GvHD), a life-threatening adverse event in which therapeutic cells attack host tissues, and allorejection, in which host immune cells eliminate therapeutic cells, thereby limiting their antitumor efficacy. In this review, we discuss recent advances in developing stem cell-engineered allogeneic cell therapies that aim to overcome the limitations of current autologous and allogeneic cell therapies, with a special focus on stem cell-engineered conventional αβ T cells, unconventional T (iNKT, MAIT, and γδ T) cells, and natural killer (NK) cells.

Indexed as

ImmunotherapyAllogeneic CellsAnimalsCell EngineeringHumansLeukocytesNeoplasmsStem Cellsallogeneic cancer therapychimeric antigen receptor (CAR)graft-versus-host disease (GvHD)off-the-shelf cell therapystem cell engineeringT cell receptor (TCR)

Identifiers

PMID34944002
PMCPMC8700013

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